BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC Tears – both real and make believe – were shed during the opening weekend of the play “Southern Baptist Sissies” in Spartanburg. The tears were those of four gay and anguished young men who grew...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Centre Stage, for the third year in row, concludes it season by stepping back in time to the age of innocence in American pop music. Following the tradition of the Andrew Sisters biography “Sisters of...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre gives a whole new urgency to the term “marrying beneath you” in a delightful and most amusing production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” With a bouncy and buoyant cast, one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s...
This is a show America needs now more than ever! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Jenna Tamisea and Christian Elser have an uncanny sense of timing. Sure, the DACA and DREAMer dilemma has been simmering for years, but how could...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The ladies of The Mill Town Players are having their day in Pelzer. Not only is the company concluding its fourth season with the outstanding and empowering female-centric jukebox musical “Beehive: The 60s Musical,” but...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC John Fagan has tamed many a shrew in his nearly 20 years as Producing Director of the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. That’s why, for the first time in seven years, Fagan handed over the metaphoric whip...
